Supporting the Education Assistant is in Everyone’s Interest

I am of an age when the educational assistant used to work only on behalf of the student to which they were assigned.

In so doing the EA was to facilitate the student’s academic achievement as best as possible.

Nowadays, the EA is often an agent of control on behalf of the administration to keep the assisted student and other disruptive students from disturbing the other non-identified students.

In today’s environment, if and when the EA can facilitate a student’s actual education beyond just managing behavior, it’s a bonus.

Hence so many kids who require the assistance of an EA are more apt to be further and further behind academically.

This leaves the student, come “graduation”, which is actually more like aging out of the school system, less capable of managing independently as an adult.

This outcome further disables the child come adulthood and also financially burdens society. It is so short-sighted.

We need a government in power who understands that the investment in meeting the needs of all children is not only an investment in the child, but all of society.

We need a policy that supports public education with more well paid EAs available to students.

Let EAs do what they are meant to do, enable the academic achievement of the student.

That will not be a conservative government.

Next election, please vote “ABC,” Anyone But Conservative.

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Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. Courts in Ontario, Canada, consider him an expert in social work, marital and family therapy, child development, parent-child relations and custody and access matters. Gary is the host of the TV reality show, Newlywed, Nearly Dead, former parenting columnist for the Hamilton Spectator and author of Marriage Rescue: Overcoming the ten deadly sins in failing relationships. Gary maintains a private practice in Georgina Ontario, providing a range of services for people in distress. He speaks at conferences and workshops throughout North America. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.